August 16, 2020

MEETING SCHEDULE AND PROGRAM

TODAY

10:00 – 11:00 AM meeting for worship (unprogrammed): care of meeting, John Kraft

Sunday worship in August: email office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org by noon Friday for the link.
* It’s easy to be in worship for as long as you are able. Consider inviting the youth of the meeting to participate!
* Bill is facilitating the worship on zoom this Sunday morning. He is available by phone or email if you have any trouble logging in.
* Yearning to visit with Friends but not necessarily all Friends at the same time? Stick around after worship today to visit in break-out rooms!

THINGS YOU MIGHT WANT TO KNOW

There is an ad hoc committee meeting to consider what the “new normal” of Meeting life will look like and how we will accomplish it –safety protocols and inclusivity are priorities. Ideas? Contact clerk, John K.

Zephyra and Roland Shepherd’s Shepherd Scholarship, created in 1977, is still administered by members of Minneapolis Meeting. Available to active MFM members of at least five years’ standing or children of active members of five years’ standing who have been accepted into a post-secondary educational institution, college or trade school. Applications available from the office: office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org

Young Friends Worldwide for Climate Action, Peace and Justice, a ten-week series (August 29 – October 24) of five online, Sat workshops based on Quaker Testimonies created to build a community of Young Quakers (ages 16-35) around the world who are interested in Climate Action, Peace, and Justice. Initiated and designed by Young Friends from each of the four Friends World Committee for Consultation sections, these workshops are by young Friends, for young Friends. More here.

OPPORTUNITIES TO CONNECT WITH MINNEAPOLIS MEETING FRIENDS

Explore the foundations of Quaker faith and practice with Mary and Stephen with thirty minutes of worship sharing on a passage from George Fox and the Bible passage on which it is based: Zoom at 11:25AM Wed, August 19th. Email office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org by noon the preceding Friday or Stephen for the link.

The Peace and Social Concerns Committee is hosting a discussion group on the book My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem, meeting via Zoom on the first and third Tuesdays of the month, 7-8:30PM. Email office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org by noon the preceding Fri for the link or contact Mary Jean. For August 18th, read Chapters 2 and 3, with a focus on our reactions to the body practices. After this week the group will be closed to new members.

Mid-week worship on Wednesdays in August at 7PM. Email office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org by noon Wed for the link.

The Peace and Social Concerns Committee will host a meeting-wide discussion of how to prepare to take effective action on racial justice issues THIS WED night at 8PM. Email office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org by noon Wed for the link or contact Roland.

Loaves and Fishes, Mon, August 31: Join other metro-area Friends, the Ismaili Community and the Mayim Rabim congregation to provide a nutritious meal at Holy Rosary Church in S Mpls, 2424 – 18th Ave S. Due to Covid-19 restrictions, the usual process has been altered: the first group will cook (2-4:30); the second group will pack up and hand out the meals (4:45-6:30,) and clean up (5-7:30.) Fruit donations, dropped off at Holy Rosary after 2:00, are needed as well. Email Christian at cbourdo(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)Loavesandfishesmn.org to sign up to make sure there is sufficient space for all the volunteers. Masks required. Please sign up to come if you can!

OPPORTUNITIES TO CONNECT WITH OTHER FRIENDS

PEOPLE CAMP, Nonviolence in Action, Aug 16-29, starts TODAY with:
 Book club discussion: on Tattoos on the Heart by Gregory Boyle and This is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt is Shaping the 21st Century by Mank Engler and Paul Engler.
 Cook with the Chef; sign up to receive a recipe and cook together.
 Games with adults and kids, happening not once but twice!
 a four-part WORKSHOP and investigate social media as a medium for change.
 Attend one, or both Alternatives to Violence sessions led by AVP facilitators.
 Join the Friday night sing-a-longs with a sing-a-long leader
 Set up an interest group and invite others to join
 Show your stuff at the Talent Show!
All this and more at Zoomed People Camp this year. Don’t miss it! Schedule can be found here. Register any time here.

Another Quaker Voluntary Service year will begin in late August! THERE ARE MANY OPPORTUNITIES TO SUPPORT THE LOCAL QVS PROGRAM: pair up with a friend and adopt a room or two at the house to clean and prepare for the new Fellows (Aug 17 and 24 plus others as needed); contribute needed items (to the pantry, sheets, a toaster); sign up to provide rides from the airport; donate items to put in welcome baskets for the Fellows, (including face masks,) sign up to provide meals during orientation (Sept 1-4,) and more! Contact Marybeth or Carolyn for more. You can read about this year’s Fellows at https://quakervoluntaryservice.org/minneapolis

Friends for a NonViolent World offers Watcha Wed every Wed, 10-11, featuring someone in the FNVW Community. This Wed, Aug 19 will be courtesy of Virtual People Camp 2020: Understanding Structural Racism: A Systems Approach with Phil Grove – https://zoom.us/j/96162676801?pwd=Q3ZOWCtGTE1WMEJLbG96NmpHVDNpZz09
Meeting ID: 961 6267 6801; Password: 655383 ; Call-In Option: +1 312 626 6799 (Chicago)

The American Friends Service Committee has recently posted the sessions it hosted on Radical Faith in Action for White People. Go to www.afsc.org and click on “radical faith in action”. A number of MFM Friends participated in the sessions and recommend them, finding the series challenging and deep. The sessions are one and a half hours each.

OFFICE HOURS Wed – Fri afternoons. Phone messages checked daily; email checked W-F. Bulletin deadline noon on Thurs.